Rome
Rover privateer
Russian commerce and ships
56-ship on an extraordinary
voyage
S
219 Sacketts Harbor

Santee, the schooner
305 Savannah

Saucy Jack privateer
123 172 Saybrook

336 Scoundrel caught
Scott general 95-county
Scorpion, see Tygress
Seminole Indians 170 271
Sevier captain
Sheep, at Kendal
Shot; a great one
Shelby governor
Sherbrooke sir John
Sicily
Singular circumstance
Sine qua non privateer
the British, see negociation,!
&c. and
editorial

of Pennsylvania
Specie from Vera Cruz 128-in
the eastern states 158 270-Wellington's soldiers 390
on board the Zealous 192 Wilcox, lieut. col.
158 Spencer captain 64 143 Wilkinson gen. court martial
143 Spies
to try him
171 319
8 Winder gen. court of enquiry

"Spirit of the nation"
Steam frigate
Queer news 172-article 284 Stewart Mr. British consul 135 Wood, col.
Quebec papers 270-arrivals Strong governor

St. Mary's, particulars of the
capture of, &c. 361 to 364

320
269 St. Eustatia
80 Stamps, product of

176 220 284 Sterrett col.

Stills, product of the tax
Register, its irregularity 128 Stoves, improvement of
Reports, see congress and trea- Stonnington 13-account of the
sury, naval, military and attack upon 130-song upen
other heads, and of the com- 133-shot collected there 206
mittee of ways and means 76 Stranger the prize 48 55 159
-on na al contracts 340-of Stricker general resigns
the P. M.general 407 Suppression of news
Resources of G. Britain
289 Supplement proposed 113 131)
Resolution of New York 123 Surprize privateer
Retaliatory documents
Retailers licences,
Revenue, internal
Retort courteous

245

135 191 Tennessee militia and volun-
136 teers see militra.

Ripley general
Rhode Island legislature-com-Thanks giving at Baltimore 80
plaint of the members from Tilghman's Island
Block Island 167-governor's Tompkins gov. commands at
message 177-legislature 178 New-York

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The hate with which we have always said Great Britain regarded us, is now exhibiting by a Gothlike war, which the late strange events in Europe enables her to carry on with extraordinary force and energy. The barriers with which civilized nations have circumscribed their military operations, are cast down by the foe; and the contest, began for unalienable rights on the sea, is becoming a struggle for liberty and property on the land. The shores of the Chesapeake are lighted by the flames of farm houses A heavy extra supplement of 12 sheets was pub-and cottages, hitherto respected in war; and the fruits lished for the 5th volume. The price of it is $1; of the earth are wontonly consumed by the invader's which must be added to the above by those who de torch. Whatever of private property pleases him, he sire it. It will, therefore, cost $21 to obtain a com-lays hold of as prizė; and wickedly destroys what plete set; which may be forwarded by mail to any he cannot carry away. Household furniture has been part of the union at a trifling expence. This supa favorite object of his vengeance, and negroes and plement contains a great deal of highly interesting tobacco are his darling spoils! His late capture of and important matter, and attaches as well to any other volume as to the fifth, having its own index with it.

Washington City is an honor to the valor of his soldiery; but his conduct in burning the capitol, the president's house and the public offices, is a disgrace Further patronage is respectfully solicited. No that he will not wipe away, more easily than we shall drudgery shall be spared to deserve it, by registering the something that permitted the irruption. The the events of these important times, as well as to capitals of the greatest empires and kingdoms of the present other matter of laborious composition, as old world were frequently captured by the contendusual. Grateful for favors received, and jealous of ing parties, in the late wars. The outlaw, Bonaparte, the good opinion held of this work, our old and ap-entered Lisbon, Madrid, Amsterdam, Berlin, Vienna, proved course shall be pursued. Conscious in the [several times] Moscow, Turin, Rome, Naples, and rectitude of his motives, the barkings of faction the capitals of ten or fifteen of the minor states of shall not tempt the editor to turn to the right hand Europe, but never, in the case of the Kremlin exor to the left; and, while a free spot remains to fix cepted, destroyed a public building undevoted to a press upon, and he has the power to support it, he military purposes; and that was not demolished unhumbly trusts the REGISTER will continue to vindi-til it was evident that the people of Moscow would cate the "principle of the revolution," and maintain themselves destroy the city. Let us look at it fairly, the constitution of the United States, without regard See the capitulation of Alexandria in the last numor reference to individuals or parties. All sorts of ber of the REGISTER; and tell me, on what occasion personal controversies shall be avoided, as hereto-that "relentless tyrant" exacted so severe terms on fore; and every attention be excited to embody the a people at his mercy, as the Scotchman, captai events of the day, in order, harmony and truth. Gordon has done? We heard much of the contribuThe support of the friends of the WEEKLY REGIS tions he imposed; but never did a city that submitted En is particularly needed. The immediate presence-that threw itself on kis clemency, suffer like Alexof the enemy severely affects the usual proceeds of andria. It is no matter that the conduct of the Alexthe establishment, and we must look to those remov-andrians was base and pusillanimous, so as to excite ed from the theatre of war for the means of meeting rather the contempt than the pity of their countryour increased expences. The advance, with the pay-men--for it does not affect the principle of the terms ment of what may be due, if any, is earnestly solicit-offered by the enemy to a defenceless, non-resisting ed of all; remittances may be made by mail, as usual, place. It is an act that the most furious and unfeeland at the risk of the editor, to Baltimore, from which ing of all the men that the events of the French revohe has no present prospect of moving. And even if lution brought to power under Renaparte, would prohe should, matters are so arranged that the mails nounce savage and base; and contrary to every thing YOL VIL

A

Ransack,

Events of the War.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas the enemy by a sudden incursion have

that should govern an honorable enemy. the history of the last twenty years, and behold all the interesting incidents that that fruitful period af ords-follow Napoleon from Cairo to Moscow, and you will not find a sing e parallel for the proceedings of the "religious and magnanimous" British at Washington and Alexandria. I bring forward Bonaparte, not to excuse him; but to condemn the hypo-succeeded in invading the capital of the nation, de-. crites that trumpetted forth his enormities to excuse fended at the moment by troops less numerous than their own, ten-fold more cruel and barbarous. The their own, and almost entirely of the militia: during scales are falling from the eyes of our people; if the their possession of which, though for a single day blazs of the capitol shall enlighten their mind, and only, they wantonly destroyed the public edifices remove their prejudice, so that they may see the having no relation in their structure to operations of character of our enemy as it really is-the present war, nor used at the time for military annoyance; safety and future peace of the United States, is some of these edifices being also costly monuments cheaply purchased, by the capture of Washington of taste and of the arts, and others depositories of and destruction of the public buildings thereat.-the public archives, not only precious to the nation The capitals of every power in Europe-London, as the memorials of its origin and its early transacStockholm and Constantinople, from peculiar circum-tions, but interesting to all nations, as contributions stances excepted, have fallen into the hands of their to the general stock of historical instruction and pos enemies; and treaties have been dictated at some litical science.

of them at the will of the conqueror. Our capital And whereas, advantage has been taken of the loss has also been polluted by a triumphant enemy. We of a fort, more immediately guarding the neighbour ought to have prevented it-but it is a common lot ing town of Alexandria, to place the town within it was evacuated with precipitation-and has had the range of a naval force, too long and too much no other effect than to rouse the nation to arms; and in the habit of abusing its superiority wherever it we hope, to give energy where, indeed, it was want-can be applied, to require, as the alternative of a ed. It will make a great noise in England; for John general conflagration, an undisturbed plunder of Bull will asily believe the city to be ten miles square; private property, which has been executed in a but much will he wonder, if one shall say to him, manner peculiarly distressing to the inhabitants that it contained only 8,000 inhabitants, and had who had, inconsiderately, cast themselves upon the less weight in the affairs of the nation, except by the justice and generosity of the victor: mere residence of the functionaries of the govern ment, than the ruined house at Old Sarum.

And whereas, it now appears, by a direct communication from the British commander on the Ameri The times are interesting and, indeed, momentous. can station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the It seems the fixed determination of the enemy, pro- force under his direction in destroying and laying fiting by the peculiar circumstances of Europe, and waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may of his own military force, to attempt to dragoon us be found assailable;" adding to this declaration the into "unconditional submission." But there is a spirit insulting pretext that it is in retaliation for a wonton In man that resists abused power. We shall become destruction committed by the army of the United an united people; and with the resources we possess, States in Upper Canada, when it is notorious, that ne will fritter down his forces, "a little here and a little destruction has been committed, which, notwiththere" and, spite of his strength, teach him that standing the multiplied outrages previously committhe homes of freemen shall not be disturbed with ted by the enemy, was not unauthorised, and promptly imptinity. A pity, indeed, is it, if we have not as shown to be so; and that the United States have been good materials to repel an intruder as Spain !- as constant in their endeavors to reclaim the enemy What is to be seen at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and from such outrages, by the contrast of their own exNew-York shews, that we are not yet prepared to ample, as they have been ready to terminate, on reaabandon one iota of our just rights; and, I trust in sonable conditions, the war itself:

Lod, we never shall be. Fiat justicia ruat cælum. And whereas, these proceedings and declared purTHE REPUBLIC SHALL LIVE! and the people be led to poses, which exhibit a deliberate disregard of the virtue, to patriotism, to a NATIONAL CHARACTER and principles of humanity, and the rules of civilized warHOME FEELING, by the "events of the war." The de-fare, and which must give to the existing war, a charfects of our system, or the errors of our practice, acter of extended devastation and barbarism, at the shall be discovered by experience, (sometimes, in-very moment of negociations for peace, invited by the deed a "dear school"), and our strength, and the best enemy himself, leave no prospect of safety to any way of applying it, be ascertained as our wants de-thing within the reach of his predatory and incendiand its exertion. Nothing is to be despaired of by ary operations, but in manful and universal determi‐ · those determined to effect an honorable purpose. Buination to chastise and expel the invaders in such determination is involved an exercise of Now, therefore, I, James Madison, president of the all our natural or acquired faculties-and, if the peo-United States, do issue this my proclamation, ex ple do not bring forward their means to support the horting all the good people thereof, to unite their vernment they themselves have established-they hearts and hands in giving effect to the ample means must expect to fail in this contest for their homes possessed for that purpose. I enjoin it on all officers, and fire-sides; and prepare themselves to become civil and military, to exert themselves in executing. hewers of wood and drawers of water" to the spol- the duties with which they are respectively charged. ers of "peace, liberty, and safety." Our cause is And more especially, I require the officers commandjust, and HE who established civil and religious free-ing the respective military districts, to be vigilant dom in America will sustain it, if we deserve the and alert in providing for the defence thereof; for the rich heritage. Courage, then! let every one come more effectual accomplishment of which, they are forward in the way that he can best serve the nation, authorised to call to the defence of exposed and and the end shall be glorious; though inconve-threatened places portions of the militia most conve niences and sufferings must be cncountered. Let nient thereto, whether they be or be not parts of the faction cease-let party moderate its warmth and quotas detached for the service of the United States politica peace be established until the foreign is under requisitions of the general government. donte Dox'T GEA UP THE SUL!"

On an occasion which appeals so forcibly to the

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the seal of the United States to be
fixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the first day of
September in the year of our Lord, 1814, and
of the independence of the United States the
JAMES MADISON.

39th.

Proud feelings and patriotic devotion of the Ameri.} The commander in chief enjoins it on the com Can people, none will forget what they owe to them-manders of divisions, brigades, regiments, batta selves; what they owe to their country and the high lions, squadrons, troops and companies, to use eve destinies which await it; what to the glory acquired ry exertion within their power to be in readiness for by their fathers, in establishing the independence actual service. At the same time he has to inform which is now to be maintained by their sons, with the them that he has used, and is now using, every augmented strength and resources with which time means within the compass of his resources to supply and Heaven had blessed them. the deficiency in munitions of war, and which will be brought into action in a manner best calcuhtel for practical use. The commander in chief thinks it scarcely necessary to remind the intelligent mili tia of New Jersey, that the invaluable legacy of our freedom was transmitted to us by the patriots of our revolution; that it is a pious duty to their me mory to preserve it unimpaired, and transmit it as a patrimonial inheritance to our children. We have JAMES MONROE, secretary of state. reason to believe that the same just and beneficent Deity that preserved our country amid the perils and FOURTH MILITARY DISTRICT.—Hend quarters, Phila-vicissitudes of the revolution, will still save it from delphia, Aug. 26, 1914. the malignant vengeance with which it is at this GENERAL ORDER-The militia of the city of Phi- time threatened: Should we for a moment hesitate ladelphia, who have volunteered their services, and to suffer privations, abandon our im⚫ginary pursuits the militia who have been drafted, detailed and orga- of wealth, suspend political dissentions, and unani nized under the requisition of the president of the mously draw our swords with an unalterable deterUnited States, of the fourth of July last, and general mination never to sheathe them until our country is orders of the commander in chief of Pennsylvania, safe, we are unworthy the high title of freemen and of the 22nd of the same month, will parade this fit only for slaves. WILLIÄM PENNINGTON. morning at 10 o'clock, in Sixth-strect, right on Chesnut-street, equipped completely for the field. By order of general Bloomfield.

By the president,

WILLIAM DUANE, adj. gen. AFTER ORDERS. The captains will proceed with their companies with all possible expedition to Kennet's square, Chester county, where they will encamp and be mustered.

The contractor will supply provisions on the returns of the commanding officer of companies, until further orders.

PENNSYLVANIA. General Orders-The landing upon our shores by the enemy hordes of marauders. for the purpose avowedly to create by plunder, burning and general devastation, all possible individual and public distress, gives scope for action to the militia of Pennsylvania to repel that foe, and with just indignation seek to avenge the unprovoked wrongs heaped on our unoffending country. The militia generally within the counties of Dauphin, Lebanon, Berks, Schuylkill, York, Adams, and Lan caster, and that part of Chester county which constitutes the 2d brigade of the 3d division, and these

The quarter-master-general will furnish transpor-corps particularly who when danger first threatenation. By order of general Bloomfield,

ed, patriotically tendered their services in the field, are earnestly invited to rise (as on many occasions Pennsylvania has heretofore done) superior to local feeling and evasions that might possibly be drawn from an imperfect military system, and to repair with that alacrity which duty commands, and it is fondly hoped inclination will prompt, to the several places of brigade or regimental rendezvous that shall respectively be designated by the proper officer, and thence to march to the place of general rendezvous,

WILLIAM DUANE, Adjutant general. NEW-JERSEY. Head Quarters, Trenton, Aug. 29, 1814-The demonstrations of the enemy must now evince to every reflecting man, a determined hostility to the freedom and independence of America. That their proposition for peace is insidious, design ed to lull us into security, and paralize the efforts of the nation. The Gothic barbarity exercised in the demolition of public edifices unconnected with war, manifest their envy and hatred of our prosperity, and the practical freedom and independence of Pennsylvanians, whose hearts must be gladdened our government. We have no choice left but sub. at the recital of the deeds of heroism achieved by mission to a haughty unjust foe, or a manly resis- their fellow-citizen soldiers now in arms on the lake tance. If the enemy are not at our own doors, they frontier, and within the enemy's country, now the are at our neighbors, affording us at once admonition occasion has occurred, will with ardor seek and to be in readiness, and time for preparation. It he- punish that same implacable foe now marauding ou hoves us, therefore, to avail ourselves of this cir- the Atlantic shores of two of our sister states.cumstance, to put ourselves in a posture of defence. Under these impressions, and confident that obedi The commander in chief, therefore solemnly calls ence will be given to the pressing call of our coun on the whole body of the militia of the state, to try, the commander in chief issues the following prepare themselves with every weapon of defence within their reach, to turn their immediate atten tion to perfecting themselves in the art of war-to be in readiness to march on the shortest notice, to You are commanded, in consequence of the reprotect every thing dear to freemen-to shield their quisition from the constituted authorities of the wives and their children, their fire-sides and their union, to have prepared for marching, and to Lete altars, from the ferocity of a barbarous army, col- marched to Yorktown, the place of rendezvous, 3000 lected from the outcasts of Europe, and the filth of men, Pennsylvania militia, from the 2d brigade of the West India Islands, and disembogued on our the Sd division, and from the 4th, 5th, and 6th divia shores, for the purpose of compelling the free born sions, which detachment is to consist of volunteers sons of America to absolute submission to the will who have, or who may tender their services, of flank of a proud, unjust nation, a corrupt ministry, and companies, infantry and riflemen, who are to march profligate princes in companies, and of drafted militia, designated for

a

GENERAL ORDERS.

HARRISBURG, 26th Ave. 1814. To John M. Hyneman, Adjutant General.

Ransack,

Events of the Far.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.

that should govern an honorable enemy. the history of the last twenty years, and behold all the interesting incidents that that fruitful period af crds-follow Napoleon from Cairo to Moscow, and you will not find a sing e parallel for the proceedings of the "religious and magnanimous" British at Washington and Alexandria. I bring forward Bona- Whereas the enemy by a sudden incursion have parte, not to excuse him; but to condemn the hypo-succeeded in invading the capital of the nation, de-. crites that trumpetted forth his enormities to excuse tended at the moment by troops less numerous than taeir own, ten-fold more cruel and barbarous. The their own, and almost entirely of the militia: during scales are falling from the eyes of our people; if the their possession of which, though for a single day blaze of the capitol shall enlighten their inind, and only, they wantonly destroyed the public edifices remove their prejudice, so that they may see the having no relation in their structure to operations of character of our enemy as it really is-the present war, nor used at the time for military annoyance; safety and future peace of the United States, is some of these edifices being also costly monuments cheaply purchased, by the capture of Washington of taste and of the arts, and others dépositories of and destruction of the public buildings thereat.-the public archives, not only precious to the nation The capitals of every power in Europe-London, as the memorials of its origin and its early transac Stockholm and Constantinople, from peculiar circum-tions, but interesting to all nations, as contributions stances excepted, have fallen into the hands of their to the general stock of historical instruction and poenemies; and treaties have been dictated at some htical science.

of them at the will of the conqueror. Our capitai And whereas, advantage has been taken of the loss has also been polluted by a triumphant enemy. We of a fort, more immediately guarding the neighbour. ought to have prevented it—but it is a common loting town of Alexandria, to place the town within it was evacuated with precipitation-and has had the range of a naval force, too long and too much no other effect than to rouse the nation to arms; and in the habit of abusing its superiority wherever it we hope, to give energy where, indeed, it was want-can be applied, to require, as the alternative of a ed. It will make a great noise in England; for John general conflagration, an undisturbed plunder of Bull will easily believe the city to be ten miles square; private property, which has been executed in a but much will he wonder, if one shall say to him, manner peculiarly distressing to the inhabitants that it contained only 8,000 inhabitants, and had who had, inconsiderately, cast themselves upon the less weight in the affairs of the nation, except by the justice and generosity of the victor: mere residence of the functionaries of the govern ment, than the ruined house at Old Sarum.

And whereas, it now appears, by a direct communication from the British commander on the Ameri The times are interesting and, indeed, momentous. can station, to be his avowed purpose to employ the It seems the fixed determination of the enemy, pro- force under his direction in destroying and laying fiting by the peculiar circumstances of Europe, and waste such towns and districts upon the coast as may of his own military force, to attempt to dragoon us be found assailable;" adding to this declaration the into "unconditional submission." But there is a spirit insulting pretext that it is in retaliation for a wonton in man that resists abused power. We shall become destruction committed by the army of the United an united people; and with the resources we possess, States in Upper Canada, when it is notorious, that ne will fritter down his forces, "a little here and a little destruction has been committed, which, notwiththere" and, spite of his strength, teach him that standing the multiplied outrages previously committhe homes of freemen shall not be disturbed with ted by the enemy, was not unauthorised, and promptly impunity. A pity, indeed, is it, if we have not as shown to be so; and that the United States have been good materials to repel an intruder as Spain !- as constant in their endeavors to reclaim the enemy What is to be seen at Baltimore, Philadelphia, and from such outrages, by the contrast of their own exNew-York shews, that we are not yet prepared to ample, as they have been ready to terminate, on reaabandon one iota of our just rights; and, I trust in sonable conditions, the war itself: Lod, we never shall be. Fiat justicia ruat calum. And whereas, these proceedings and declared purTHE REPUBLIC SHALL LIVE! and the people be led to poses, which exhibit a deliberate disregard of the virtue, to patriotism, to a NATIONAL CHARACTER and principles of humanity, and the rules of civilized war-. HOME FEELING, by the "events of the war." The de-fare, and which must give to the existing war, a charfects of our system, or the errors of our practice, acter of extended devastation and barbarism, at the shall be discovered by experience, (sometimes, in- very moment of negociations for peace, invited by the deed a "dear school"), and our strength, and the best enemy himself, leave no prospect of safety to any way of applying it, be ascertained as our wants de-thing within the reach of his predatory and incendimand its exertion. Nothing is to be despaired of by ary operations, but in manful and universal determi、 those determined to effect an honorable purpose. But nation to chastise and expel the invader in such determination is involved an exercise of Now, therefore, I, James Madison, president of the all our natural or acquired faculties-and, if the peo- United States, do issue this my proclamation, ex ple do not bring forward their means to support the horting all the good people thereof, to unite their overnment they themselves have established-they hearts and hands in giving effect to the ample means must expect to fail in this contest for their homes possessed for that purpose. I enjoin it on all officers, and fire-sides; and prepare themselves to become civil and military, to exert themselves in executing. hewers of wood and drawers of water" to the spol- the duties with which they are respectively charged. ers of "peace, liberty, and safety" Our cause is And more especially, I require the officers commandjust, and HE who established civil and religious free-ing the respective military districts, to be vigilant dom in America will sustain it, if we deserve the and alert in providing for the defence thereof; for the rich heritage. Courage, then! let every one come more effectual accomplishment of which, they are forward in the way that he can best serve the nation, authorised to call to the defence of exposed and and the end shall be glorious; though inconve-threatened places portions of the militia most conve niences and sufferings must be encountered. Let nient thereto, whether they be or be not parts of the faction cease-let party moderate its warmth-and quotas detached for the service of the United States politica peace be established until the foreign is under requisitions of the general government. donte. DON'T GMA UP THE SUIL !” On an occasion which appeals so forcibly to the